Pre-publication overview - January /30/2015

Commercial Cognitive Computing

An Emerging Market Report

V1.0 February 2015

Edited by

Adrian J. Bowles, PhD

Pre-publication overview - January 2015.

1/30/2015

Draft

NOTE. This document provides an overview of the material to be provided in the

Commercial Cognitive Computing Emerging Market Report series, published by STORM

Insights, Inc. for annual subscribers. The actual reports, to be published in February, April,

June, August, October and December of 2015, are expected to each be 30-100 pages,

delivered as PDF documents. The February edition will feature profiles of the key learning

vendors (~20), the April edition will add ~30 I/O and infrastructure vendors, and each

subsequent edition will add 20-30 vendors. In each edition, we will also include profiles of the

investors supporting each of these vendors.

Throughout this document text boxes in

BROWN

will highlight features and explain the form

of the reports.

Contents

I.

Overview of the commercial cognitive computing ecosystem

II. Continuous learning technology vendors

III. I/O technology vendors

IV. Infrastructure vendors

V.

Complete ecosystem listing

Our goal is to make the document easy to navigate, so each section will start with a

graphic showing the market in context of the overall ecosystem and provide a

narrative describing the key issues. That will be followed by profiles/analyses of the

vendors with technologies, products, and services in this specific market.

The actual report will be available for download as a PDF document with navigation

hyperlinks. For example, clicking on Text/NLP in a figure like this will take a reader to

the page describing the market for Natural Language Processing/Text technologies,

with links to relevant vendor profiles.

In this graphic, we show firms with technologies or products in each of the critical I/O markets.

Some are already established in the cognitive computing space, others are expected to be used

in the next generation of cognitive computing projects. Profiles will cover their current and

anticipated usage.

In this graphic, we list many of the key players providing products and services to

support the development of cognitive computing. Firms that appear in multiple

categories have multiple product o

ff

erings, each of which will be listed in the profile.

Alphabetical Listing

• 1010data

• 3Gear Systems(Oculus)

• ABBYY

• Accenture

• Actian

• Actuate

• Adatao

• Aerospike

• Affectiva

• ai one

• Alation

• AlchemyAPI

• Alpine Data Labs

• Alteryx

• Altilia

• Amazon

• Angoss

• Apple

• APX Labs

• Artificial Learning

• Attivio

• Ayasdi

• Azure ML (Microsoft)

• Basho

• BeyondVerbal

• BigML

• Birst

• blippar

• Boston Dynamics (Google)

• BRSLabs

• CA Technologies

• Caspio

• Cisco Systems

• Civis Analytics

• Clarifai

• ClearStoryData

• Cognitive Scale

• Cognizant Technology

• Coherent Knowledge Systems

• Connotate

• Context Relevant

• CrowdFlower

• CumuLogic

• Cycorp

• Datameer

• DataStax

• DataWeb, Inc.

• Dark Blue Labs (Google/deepmind)

• DeepMind (google)

• Data Bricks

• Dataiku

• DataRPM

• Dato

• DDN

• Declara

• Dell

• Deloitte

• Dextro

• diffbot

• Digital Reasoning

• DNN Research (Google)

• DWave

• EMC/Greenplum

• Emerald Logic

• Emotient

• enStratius (DELL)

• Ersatz Labs

• Expect Labs

• EyeSight

• Facebook

• First Rain

• Flutter(Google)

• ForeSee

• Fractal Analytics

• GestureTek

• GigaSpaces

• Giraph

• Google

• Grappa

• GridGain

• Gridspace

• Guavus

V.

Complete ecosystem listing

In the actual reports, vendor names will be linked to their profile

page(s). We will also provide a linked listing by product name.

• HP Vertica

• HRL Laboratories

• IBM

• idibon

• import io

• indico

• Inkiru (Walmart)

• Intel

• IPSoft

• Kaypok

• Kimono

• KNIME (Konztanz)

• KXEN (SAP)

• Leap Motion

• LiftIgniter

• Limbic

• Loop AI Labs

• Lumiata

• Luminoso

• Madbits (twitter)

• Maluuba

• MapR

• MarkLogic

• MathWorks Matlab

• MetaMind

• Microsoft

• Mindops

• MongoDB

• Mu Sigma

• Nara Logics

• Narrative Science

• NeoTechnology

• Nervana Systems

• Neurala

• Neurence

• Neven Vision (google)

• Nod

• Nuance

• Numenta

• NuTonian

• Opera Solutions

• Oracle

• Oxdata (H2O)

• Palantir

• Paxata

• Pentaho

• PittPatt (google)

• PopupArchive

• Prediction IO

• Predixion

• Pregel (Google)

• Qliktech

• Qualcomm

• Quid

• RainStor

• Rapid Miner

• Reactor

• Revolution Analytics (MSFT)

• Saffron

• Salford Systems

• SAP

• SAS Institute

• Scaled Inference

• Sentient Technologies, LLC

• SiSense

• Skymind

• Space Curve

• SpaceTimeInsight

• Spark Beyond

• StatSoft (Dell)

• Synthos Technologies

• Teradeep

• Tibco Jaspersoft

• TIBCO - Spotfire

• Versium

• Vicarious

• Visenze

• Viv Labs

• Wise.io

• wit.ai

• A Grade Ventures

• Accenture

• Access Industries

• Alchemist Accelerator

• Allen & Co.

• Altman, Sam • AME Ventures • Amplify Partners • Andreessen Horowitz • Atlantic Bridge • Atlas Venture

• Azure Capital Partners

• BAE

• Battery Ventures

• Benioff, Marc

• Bessemer Venture Partners

• Bezos, Jeff

• Bloomberg Beta

• BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners

• Boldstart Ventures

• Catamount Ventures

• Citi Ventures

• Citrix Startup Accelerator

• Clearsky

• Constance

• Contour Venture Partners

• Credit Suisse

• Crunchfund

• Data Collective

• DFJ Growth

• Draper Fisher Jurvetson

• Dyson, Esther

• Earlybird Venture Capital

• EMC

• EnerTech Capital

• Felicis Ventures

• Formation 8

• Founders Fund

• Frost Venture Partners

• Fuel Capital • GE Ventures • Genesis Partners • Goldman Sachs • Good Ventures • Google Ventures • Greylock Partners • GSV Capital • Haystack Fund

• Highland Capital Partners

• Horizon Ventures • IBM • IDG Ventures • In-Q-Tel • indico • Innovation Works

• Insights Venture Partners

• Intel Capital

• Investor Growth Capital

• Ironfire Ventures • IVP • Jump Capital • kbs+ • KEC Ventures • Kima Ventures • Khosla Ventures • KPCB • KPG Ventures • Kutcher, Ashton • LDV Capital • Lear Corporation • Levie, Aaron • Liberty Global • Lux Capital

• Madrona Venture Group

• Menlo Ventures

• Miramar Venture Partners

• Mission Ventures

• Moskovitz, Dustin

• Nashville Capital Network

• Northbridge Venture

Partners

• Northwest Venture Partners

• Northwestern University

• Novus Energy Partners

• NVIDIA

• Open Ocean Capital

• Open Field Capital

• Opus Capital

• OS Fund

• Palomar Ventures

• Principia SGR

• Qualcomm Ventures

• Quest Venture Partners

• Reventon

• Robert Bosch Venture Capital

• RRE Ventures • Samsung • Sandbox Industries • Sapphire Ventures • Sequoia Capital • Sierra Ventures

• SOS Ventures International

• Startup Farms International

• StartX • Susa Ventures • SV Angels • Tata Communications • Telefonica • Tencent • Thiel, Peter

• TIE Angels Group

• Toba Capital

• Two Sigma Ventures

• UMC Capital • Updata Partners • USAA • Voyager Capital • Walden-Riverwood • XG Ventures • Yale • Yang, Jerry • Zarco Group • Zouk • Zuckerberg, Mark

New technology markets require capital. The firms listed in this table have already

invested in the cognitive computing ecosystem (some have single investments, some as

many as 10 investments). They will be profiled in this report series, along with others as

they enter this market.

Author Bio: Adrian Bowles

Adrian Bowles is the Founder of STORM Insights, Inc, a

research and market intelligence firm focused on the role of

emerging technologies in business transformation. Adrian

has over 25 years of experience as an analyst, practitioner

and academic in IT strategy and management.

Previously, Adrian founded the Governance, Risk Management & Compliance Roundtable

for the Object Management Group, the IT Compliance Institute with 101 Communications,

and Atelier Research. He has held executive positions at Ovum (Datamonitor), Giga

Information Group, New Science Associates, and Yourdon, Inc. Adrian also held academic

appointments in computer science at the State University of New York at Binghamton and

Drexel University, and adjunct faculty positions in the business schools at NYU and Boston

College. He began his career with research and application development roles at GTE

Laboratories and IBM.

Adrian earned his BA in Psychology and MS in Computer Science from

the State University

of New York at

Binghamton and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern

University.

Adrian also...

Wrote his first AI application - a natural language simulation program - at SUNY Binghamton for his MS project (With B. Merritt). It was published in the proceedings of Cybersoft 80, the International Symposium on Cybernetics and Software. 1978-1980

Studied AI, symbolic logic and mechanical theorem proving at Northwestern as part of his PhD studies (Computer Science). 1981-1982

Taught AI at Drexel University, frequently bringing the computer center to a standstill with his popular class competition for a 2-person, zero sum, perfect information game. 1983-1986

Evaluated AI tools for RCA Labs and led their design submission for the US DoD Air Land Battle Management System 


(a collection of coordinated expert systems for advising field operations). 1987

Developed and analyzed software engineering tools and advised early adopters on strategy. 1988-2008

Taught MBA classes in IT strategy/management and e-commerce in the business schools at NYU and Boston College. His classes focused on analytics and developing business plans and strategies to leverage emerging technologies. 1999-2009

Provided advisory services to the IBM Watson ecosystem team, developing an assessment tool for potential application ecosystem partners 2013-2014